OKADA MANILA : Official Residence of the 65th Miss Universe Pageant

It is going to be the biggest and most luxurious hotel casino on earth!

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It's finally happening! After two decades, the Miss Universe pageant will be held in the Philippines.

The announcement was made last July 28  by Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo.

Private sector will handle the expenses. 

Kazuo Okada and Henry Sy are among the sponsors.

President Duterte met with officials of the Tiger Resort Leisure and Entertainment Inc. led by Chairman Kazuo Okada, Executive, Assistant to the Chairman Sumire Kamura and Chief Operating Officer Takahiro Usui at the Music Room in Malacañang Palace on July 18.

Okada Manila

 It has been known as Manila Bay Resort—or generally Tiger Resort—is now Okada Manila, the third and, with a 44-hectare property, presumably the grandest integrated resort to open in Entertainment City in Parañaque.

Kazuo Okada, Japanese billionaire,  is the chairman of Universal Entertainment Corportation, which operates Tiger Resort Leisure and Entertainment Inc., the trade name of Okada Manila formerly known as Manila Bay Resorts

Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach and Japanese businessman and billionaire, Chairman Kazuo Okada during the launching of Okada Manila last month.

Named as “the largest casino resort in the Philippines,” Okada Manila will house up to 500 table games and approximately 3,000 electronic gaming machines.

The $2.4 billion integrated resort and gaming complex that sits on a 44-hectare land, is located three kilometers away from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) and is at the foreshore of Manila Bay. It will be the third complex of its kind to open in Entertainment City.

Tiger Resort Board of Director Antonio Cojuangco, Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach, and Okada Manila COO Takahiro Usui

Scheduled to have a soft opening in December, the complex will feature a 993-room hotel and a two-hectare fountain that will be one of the world’s largest. Apart from those, it will have 21 self-operated restaurants, an 8,409 square meters of premium retail promenade featuring local and international brands, 500 table games and approximately 3,000 Electronic Game Machines, and a beach club enclosed in a glass dome housing a white sand beach that can accommodate 4,500 people.

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sources :
http://www.mb.com.ph/
http://thestandard.com.ph/
http://www.tigerresort.com/
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